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BGM: Waddle Dee Town (Kirby and the Forgotten Land)
"Okay, we're not angry at you children." Akechi said as everyone was back at Waddle Dee Town. "We're just concerned for your safety… since this world is dangerous and all."
"Not to mention we're also curious how you five managed to follow us all the way from the Mushroom Kingdom to Popstar without being caught by us when we ended up in this strange new world."
Vergil folded his arms while also giving them a stern look. "Not to mention we're also curious as well of why you five scamps were following us in the first place."
"Whoa! Relax for a little bit, Vergil! They're just kids!" Chiaki said.
Dante sighed. "I may not agree with my brother's attitude, but… he's got a point. Wandering around an unknown area without adult supervision was still very dangerous and reckless of you young children."
Laura sighed. "Well, it's not like we actually followed you from the Mushroom Kingdom to Popstar." She said. "You see, we're in the middle of our Spring Break and we're crashing at my house for the whole break. We find this portal opening up in my backyard and before we knew it, we were sucked into the void. Next thing we know, we wake up in an abandoned city and then we see you guys running around so we thought we'd… try to follow you guys undetected."
"That explains a lot…" Iris said with Nyx and Sonia nodding.
"Wait, so… you saw us but you didn't alert us to your presence?" Makoto asked.
Albedo chuckled nervously. "We uh… didn't want to get in your way."
"Even so! You could've told us and we would've found a way to get you guys home!" Makoto pointed out. "...Not that we know of a way to get back to Popstar. Futaba, do you know?"
"Unfortunately, no." Futaba said as she was looking through her laptop. "We were sucked into the void but I'm not finding any way out of this New World. To make matters worse…" She pulled out her phone. "We can't even phone home."
"I tried teleporting out myself, but for some reason, I couldn't." Mewtwo explained.
"And yet, you and Chiaki managed to teleport me into this place." Shadow pointed out.
"I mean… some guy is claiming to be the ultimate lifeform and is blocking the Ayami twins from trying to communicate with Umber. It'd be a missed opportunity if we didn't bring you over." Chiaki explained.
"Hmph." Shadow smirked. "You're right about that."
"Even so, you were hiding out for so long that you could've been ambushed by the Beast Pack. That was incredibly reckless of you!" Vergil said.
"Now now…" Laxus spoke up. "Let's not be so hard on 'em. After all, most of you weren't there but Oran followed us completely undetected for two areas until he made himself known." He pointed out.
"He's definitely right… I'm still impressed we didn't notice for that long." Nyx admitted.
"Man, talk about a heck of a Spring Break." Nick said. "First we try to guard dust shipments at the Vale docks and now we got sucked into a portal that lead us to this new world."
"...Wait, what was that about guarding Dust shipments?" Sonia asked.
"Oh yeah, there were reports of shipments of Dust crates getting robbed by a mysterious mafia crew so we took the liberty to gua-" Magnolia covered his mouth. "Mmmph mmph-... oomph…" He sweatdropped.
"You gotta be kidding me." Mercury said. "You guarded Dust crates from some mafia gang?"
"Well, we tried to…" Laura mumbled, glaring at Albedo who shamefully looked down on the ground.
"For the love of…" Laxus groaned, pinching the bridge of his nose. "You knuckleheads could've gotten killed out there, five small individuals guarding Dust shipments against full grown adults who'll walk all over you? You could have been seriously hurt… or worse!"
"Actually, I was at Laura's home…" Logue admitted.
Laxus sighed. "You could've had someone responsible with you so you could have had at least the upper hand. You ought to consider yourselves lucky to be alive."
Laura sighed. "We're sorry…"
Laxus's face softened. "That said, I'm impressed that you were able to remain undetected for a while now, and honestly, I shouldn't be too hard on you. Back in my day, there were a few kids in the guild who looked young enough that they shouldn't have been on missions, yet they were fully capable."
"Really?" Magnolia asked.
"Yeah. If I recall correctly, one of them was Romeo… and the other? Heh, she was quite feisty back in the day. She always managed to surprise me with how strong she's gotten. She may not look it, but Wendy was a hell of a fighter. Then again, I shouldn't be too surprised, she was the Dragon Slaying Huntress of the Winds."
"A little kid was a dragon slayer?" Zapple asked in surprise.
"Eh, she wasn't that little, but… I'd say she was about… oh… how old are you kids?"
"Eight." Laura said. "Most of us are. Logue is seven."
"Yeah, around that age."
In the afterlife…
"Aw come on, I was twelve when I joined Fairy Tail…" Wendy pouted where Lucy patted her on the shoulder.
"There there…"
Back with them…
Laxus chuckled. "So honestly, I'm sure you guys are on the right track to become huntsmen and huntresses… however, I'd say starting small is the way to go. While it was noble of you to guard Dust crates… I'd say the Vale mafia was way out of your league."
Laura sweatdropped, sheepishly rubbing the back of her head. "Yeeeeeah, looking back, we bit off more than we could chew…"
"As I said, working your way up through your skill levels and as you get older, I'm sure you guys can handle tougher jobs. If anything, I'd say taking on the mafia would be better if someone else were to handle it."
"Like RWBY?" Laura asked.
"JNPR?" Magnolia chimed in.
"CFVY?" Albedo chimed in.
"ATMC?" Nick also added.
"JINXY?" Logue smiled.
"Sure, why not. We got nothing better to do aside from trying to locate Umber." Iris chuckled.
"Oh! Maybe the Thunder Legion!" Laura said. "Or… uh… maybe the Ultimates?"
"Oh, uh… well…" Hajime rubbed the back of his head.
"If they dared to cross paths with me, they'd think twice of messing around with me and my Devas!" Gundham declared.
"...I'm starting to think that this guy is just hammy." Elfilin said.
"Hmm, well… I do have militaristic expertise…" Sonia rubbed her chin.
"Hmm, depending on what kind of mafia, I could go solo or have a team on standby…" Chiaki thought aloud. "I mean, are these low level goons or high leveled goons that can provide a decent challenge?"
"Well, considering this one guy managed to nearly get me concussed…" Nick rubbed his head. "Definitely destroyed my stone golem too."
"Ooooh, a nice challenge… I like the sound of that." Chiaki said, which had Hajime gently elbow her on the shoulder. "Ooof! What? I was kidding." She giggled.
"Heck, we could probably take 'em on!" Ryuji said.
"Oh, that's cute. You guys think you could reach 'em after I'm done toying with them~" Haru giggled. "Just kidding!"
Ann sweatdropped. "Sometimes I worry about you."
Laura chuckled. "Well, I guess Team LAFF could learn a thing or two from the greats…"
"Lakefront?" Ryuji raised an eyebrow. "Okay, so… L-A-F-T! No, wait… L-A-F-N? Nah, that's not it."
"No, it's L-A-F-F." Laura corrected.
"Uh… Team Laugh?"
Laura resisted the urge to facepalm. "It's Lakefront."
BB-8 beeped in confusion, trying to spell it out for himself but sweatdropped, beeping in even more confusion.
"I mean, SSSN makes sense…" Chiaki said. "Kinda…"
"SSSN is one thing, but people are gonna confuse Lakefront for Laugh! Seriously!" Ryuji said. "In one corner, we have Team RWBY! And in this corner, we have Teeeeeeam Laugh! No, seriously, no matter how many times it's gonna be corrected, everyone will just see "Laugh" and not "Lakefront"!"
"...No no, he's got a point!" Soldier agreed.
"Totally agreeing with ya there." Scout nodded.
"I have a feeling it'll get worked out in no time." Akira said.
"Agreed." Engi nodded in agreement.
"So… just so we're clear…" Kasen spoke up. "You said you were sucked into a random void at your home, correct?"
"Yes." Laura nodded.
"Hmm… I failed to mention this earlier, but there have been moments of these portals opening up and stealing away some fellow Gensokyoans. Since Popstar had a massive one and sucked all of you in, I've reason to believe they are lost somewhere in this New World."
"Is that why you dragged me out of bed?" Reimu asked.
"I told you, but you were too groggy to even pay attention."
"Hey…!"
"How many Gensokoyans have been pulled into the void, I do not know. However, I've heard that the head priestess of the Myouren Temple has gone missing for some time." Kasen explained.
"Oh joy, so Byakuren probably needs saving." Reimu said. "...Actually, knowing her, she probably busted her way out and is trying to find her way around the place… hey, wait a second." She turned to Penny and SAPR. "Have you tried finding them yourselves?"
"Sorry. This place is doing a number on our scanners. It was just by luck that we were able to find you guys." Penny admitted.
"Damn…" Reimu mumbled under her breath. "Well, it was worth asking."
End BGM
"In any case, we need to-" A shadow was cast over Chiaki. "Hmm?" She looked up as did everyone else, where they would see the Lor Starcutter coming in for a landing.
BGM: Title Screen (Kirby Star Allies)
"Ha ha! We finally found 'em!"
"The Lor Starcutter?" Chiaki wondered as the Lor Starcutter landed nearby.
"Poyo!" Kirby cheered happily.
"Friends of yours?" Elfilin asked as Kirby nodded. "Awesome!" He said as the hatch opened up as Magolor was the first to walk out.
"Ah, there we are, we were looking all over for ya!" Magolor said as one by one, the Star Allies walked out… but the moment Marx walked out, Chiaki's eyes widened.
Pause BGM
MARX?! Chiaki thought, recalling the many many MANY times she struggled to defeat Marx Soul, whether it be low health from a bad run and Galacta Knight made her life hell, or accidentally being too close to a black hole while on low health, she had a good run but just got unlucky, or Marx being cheap as hell, or anything that annoyed the crap out of her.
A deep growl escaped Chiaki's lips as she summoned the Master Sword. Oh, I'm going to enjoy this. She thought as Futaba immediately noticed this.
"Uh… Chiaki, what are you doing?" Futaba asked, watching Chiaki slowly walk toward him.
"I don't know why no one is attacking Marx, but I'm gonna make sure-"
"Whooooooa, gamer girl!" Futaba got between her and Marx. "Easy! He's pretty much a good guy! …Kinda."
"What do you mean?"
"Okay, so this might be a bit of a spoiler for Star Allies, but there was DLC for the game and they made certain characters playable."
"Oh, really? No way! Who are they?"
"Weeeeeeeell…"
Resume BGM
Chiaki looked at everyone, starting with the animal friends. "Uh-huh… makes sense…" She then looked to Marx, which immediately dawned on her and made her drop the Master Sword in disbelief. "Are you serious?!"
"Ooooh yeah… it gets wilder." Futaba said as Chiaki gave Marx a glare.
"...Yeesh, if looks could kill." Marx sweatdropped.
Chiaki then looked at Gooey. "Okay, that makes sense…" She then looked at Adaleine and Ribbon, which was enough for her to nearly have a fangirl attack. "Yes! Finally! She's playable in something!"
"...Huh?" Ribbon looked at Adaleine who shrugged it off.
Then to Dark Meta Knight.
"Oh, cool, he's playab-... WAIT, WHAT?! WHY?!"
"You have a problem with me?" Dark Meta Knight asked, where Chiaki immediately looked at Daroach.
"Okay, that's questionable…" She said as she turned to Magolor, where she immediately narrowed her eyes and did the "I got my eyes on you" gesture.
"You don't seem like the most trustworthy person…" Magolor said.
"You may have reformed, but you're still a mischievous person."
"...Fair enough!"
Elfilin looked at Marx and Magolor, and then at Chiaki. Ooooh, are these the two that she was referring to?
Chiaki then looked to Taranza. "Okay, I can see that." She offered him an empathetic smile before turning to Susie. "...Huh, okay. Random." She said and then finally, she looked at the Mage Sisters and Hyness. "Um… who are these guys?"
"Oh!" Francisca immediately got close to Chiaki. "I'm Francisca, I'm an ice mage and I also have a soda gun!"
"Yo! Name's Flamberge! Fire is my passion!"
"Greetings, I'm Zan Partizanne, and electricity is my power."
"And I'm Lord Hyness! Nice to meet ya!" Hyness waved.
Oh, you four seem to be very likable people. Chiaki thought with a smile. "Hey, name's Chiaki Nanami. Nice to meet all of you…" She looked at Marx. "Most of you."
"Oh relax, I used to be bad, but thanks to the puffball over here. I've turned over a new leaf! I wouldn't dare to cross a line!" Marx said.
"See? He's not evil any-"
Marx immediately fired a laser into the ground, creating a line between Chiaki and himself. "Specifically, this line!"
"-More…"
"He literally fired a laser on the ground."
"I didn't say he still wasn't unhinged…" Futaba sweatdropped.
"Heheheh…" Marx gave Chiaki a cheeky smirk where a cross vein appeared on Chiaki's forehead.
"Oh! Wait, there's one more person that came with us." Magolor said as they turned to see Galacta Knight walking out.
Chiaki jawdropped. "Holy crap!"
"He's not playable." Futaba told her.
"Aww…"
End BGM
Penny, meanwhile, tensed up at the sight of Galacta Knight, recalling how her encounter with him went last time. "Mmmph…" She whimpered.
"...Sis, are you okay?" SAPR asked in concern.
"Th-that's… the one who… stabbed me…"
SAPR looked at Galacta Knight. "That's the one who-" She immediately got in front of Penny, glaring at Galacta Knight with a "Don't even think about coming near her!" look on her face.
Galacta Knight looked at Penny and looked away shamefully.
"Come on, sis. Let's get you away from him." SAPR pushed Penny away who was still frozen in fear.
Robots get PTSD? Ryuji wondered while scratching his head.
"Hmm? Ooooh!" Elfilin said in awe, looking at a building that had finished being built. "That looks interesting!"
"Hmm? Wonder what that's all about." Chiaki said as they walked inside.
BGM: Waddle Dee's Weapon Shop (Kirby and the Forgotten Land)
"Oh! Hello hello!" The Waddle Dee greeted. "Welcome! If you're looking for any copy ability in particular, you came to the right place! In fact, if you want me to, I can upgrade the copy abilities too!"
"...Wait, time out… did you just say "upgrade"?" Chiaki asked in surprise.
"Yup yup! As long as I have the blueprint available, I can upgrade 'em! …For a small price of course."
Oh, here we go. Chiaki thought. "How much?"
"A couple of Rare Stones. There are these star shaped stones that are pretty rare to find in this world. They look like these!" He said, pulling out two of them.
Chiaki's eyes widened. "Oh! So that's what these are for." She said, pulling out seven of them that they all collected.
"Heeeey, that's a pretty good collection! Here, you can have mine!" He said, tossing them to Chiaki. "I already have two blueprints too for Cutter and Fire, specifically."
"Ooooooh!" Elfilin's eyes sparkled.
"Poyo!" Kirby smiled.
BB-8 booped out some "I have a bad feeling about this" noises.
"Oh, I'm sure it'll be fine." Chiaki told him. "How much?"
"Five hundred Star Coins and two Rare Stones each. I can upgrade the Cutter to Chakram Cutter and I can upgrade Fire to Volcano Fire."
Chiaki paled. "V-Volcano Fire?"
End BGM
Inside Chiaki's imagination…
BGM: City Trial - Station Fire (Kirby Air Ride)
"POOOOYOOOOOOOOOOO!" Kirby screamed, blowing off his top and shooting out lava everywhere.
"AAAAAAAAH!" The residents of Popstar ran around in terror of the apocalypse that Kirby had unleashed.
"I'M MELTIIIIIIIIING!" Dedede cried.
"TELL MY WIFE THAT I LOVED HER!" A Waddle Doo screamed.
An eldritch abomination flew toward Popstar, only to see said planet on fire. All of it. "...I'll just… come back next week." It said and hightailed it out of there while the lava slowly made its way into the Smash Mansion where everyone was screaming in terror… all the while Incineroar, Charizard and Bowser were casually chilling in the lava, clinking lemonade glasses without a care in the world.
Bowser held up a pitcher. "Sugar Honey Iced Tea?"
"Roar!" Incineroar nodded as Bowser filled him a glass. "Cineroar!" Incineroar smiled and drank it.
End BGM
Chiaki grimaced and knelt down next to Kirby. "Hey bud? Let's try not to get angry when you have this ability, okay?"
"Poyo?" Kirby tilted his body in confusion as Chiaki handed over four Rare Stones as the Waddle Dee went right to work on upgrading the Cutter and Fire abilities.
"Here ya go!" He said, coming back with them. "Feel free to try 'em out in the training room!"
"Poyo!" Kirby donned the Chakram Cutter ability as he walked into the other room and saw a Kirby-styled Sandbag in the room. Kirby immediately threw the chakrams to his heart's content, throwing them around and charging them up for maximum damage.
Then he walked out and sucked up the Volcano Fire ability on the Kirby mannequin as he walked back into the room and started spewing out lava rocks on the Sandbag.
"...Okay, that's not too bad." Chiaki admitted as suddenly Kirby got in a stance as a stream of lava shot out of the top of Kirby's hat and aimed it directly at the Sandbag, incinerating it while also leaving a massive hole in the wall, causing Chiaki, BB-8 and Elfilin to sweatdrop.
"I can see why you were a bit nervous over that." Elfilin said.
"Yeeeeeeah…" Chiaki agreed as Kirby turned around in innocence.
"Poyo!" He innocently smiled while Taranza, Flamberge, Marx and Pyro peeked in from outside the hole.
"Yikes…" Taranza said.
"And you guys say I have a fiery temper…" Flamberge sweatdropped.
Once they walked out, they hopped onto the Warp Star and set off for Everbay Coast.
World 2-1: Abandoned Beach - Marx, Pyro, Ryuji, Makoto, Penny, SAPR, Bandana Dee
BGM: Abandoned Beach (Kirby and the Forgotten Land)
"Woooow, it's so pretty!" Chiaki gushed as they landed on the beach.
"Poyo!" Kirby agreed as the other group landed nearby.
"Wow, this is pretty!" Ryuji said. "Guess I know where to go to if I feel like going to the beach."
"Once we figure out how to get back, that is." Makoto pointed out.
"Fair."
"Hope you don't mind if I tag along, gamer girl!" Marx said with a mischievous smirk.
Great… Chiaki thought as they started to swim toward the first island where they met some friendly Blippers.
"Hmm… ya know, I'm curious… what's your name, exactly?" Elfilin asked Marx.
"Marx, why?"
"I was just wondering but uh… what makes you so… bad?"
"Eh? I'm not as bad as I used to be. However, I did make the sun and moon fight over Popstar one day."
"...I'm sorry, you did what? How did you manage to pull that off?"
Pause BGM
"Hey, Mr. Bright! Mr. Shine wanted me to tell you that you're ugly and you will never get a girlfriend!"
"He WHAT."
"Hey, Mr. Shine! Mr. Bright said to me that you are so fat, that they named fat cakes after you!"
"...Why I OUGHTA…"
"This is for calling me fat!"
"This is for calling me ugly!"
"I'll never get a girlfriend, will I?!"
"Not with that attitude of yours!"
"Poyo…?" Kirby wondered, watching the sun and the moon fighting.
"Kirby! This is terrible! The sun and moon are fighting! You have to find a way to put a stop to this! I heard there's someone called NOVA, you have to go find him and wish that they'd stop!"
"Poyo!"
Resume BGM
"You did THAT? For what, were you bored out of your mind?" Elfilin asked.
"Yeah… and I also tricked Kirby to activating NOVA so I could achieve ultimate power."
"So you got… the sun and moon to fight… all for power? I'm not even mad, I'm actually impressed that you pulled that off!" Elfilin said and then turned to Chiaki. "Don't worry, I don't think I'll make that happen…"
"I wasn't worried."
They swam past a Glunk and then got to a different part of the island were a Foley attacked them, but Kirby sucked it up to become Bomb Kirby, while Makoto noticed a coconut on the ground.
"Hmm?" She wondered as she walked over to it and picked it up, then crushed it after she clenched it.
"Dude! What do you have against coconuts?" Ryuji asked.
"Nothing. I just saw the number one on it." Makoto responded.
"...Oh, is that it? I guess it's another scavenger hunt." Ryuji said while Kirby and Chiaki walked past a Noddy.
"Poyo?" Kirby wondered.
"Nah, I don't think so. Pfft, like, imagine upgrading Sleep. I don't see it."
"...How does one upgrade sleep?" SAPR wondered.
"Snoring loudly? Crushing your enemies by dropping a bed on them? Hibernate for twenty four hours? …Though I don't think humans are capable for that." Penny guessed while shrugging, all the while Bandana Dee picturing trapping enemies in snot bubbles before shuddering at that gross image.
They went back into the water and swam to the next island, dodging a Glunk in the process. "...Hey, has anyone seen Pyro?" Elfilin asked as a Gnawcodile spotted them and swam toward them.
"Forget Pyro, we got a hell of a crocodile headed our way!" Ryuji said as the Gnawcodile sunk underneath and was ready to chomp down, but it was suddenly electrocuted and floated up harmlessly.
"Huh?" Marx wondered as Pyro emerged from the water, holding the Neon Annihilator.
"Mmmph mmph~!"
"Ah, Pyrosharking… that'll do it." Chiaki snickered as they got to the island as Ryuji fished up a gachapon right when Makoto crushed another coconut.
"Huh… a lantern…" Ryuji said as he opened up the gachapon before tossing it away and hiding it from Makoto.
"What lantern?" Makoto asked.
"Nothing! Nothing at all!" Ryuji lied as Makoto narrowed her eyes before shrugging it off and they hopped onto the Warp Star. Phew… woman, you have issues. He thought as he hopped on and then headed off to the next area.
Once they landed, they swam across the water and surfaced… only to be greeted by a Wild Bonkers. "Oh hey, big guy! You look… way different." Chiaki said as the Bonkers attempted to swing his hammer down… only for Marx to sprout his wings and split him apart to make a black hole and sucked up Bonkers, spitting out the hammer in the process.
BB-8 beeped wildly.
"I agree! That's just messed up!" Elfilin exclaimed.
"What? You act like black holes are a bad thing!" Marx said non-chalantly.
"...I can see why you have issues with him." Elflin whispered.
"That's nothing. Wait until you see what he's capable of in his soul form."
"S-S-Soul form…?" Elfilin whimpered at the thought. "You mean to tell me there's a form where he's more unhinged than he is right now?!"
"Aw come on, you say that like it's a bad thing!" Marx grinned innocently while Kirby sucked up the hammer.
"...No comment." Chiaki mumbled as they kept going, as the black hole was enough to unnerve a Waif and hid behind some boxes in terror as they walked past it, then Kirby spotted a suspicious wall as he swam over and climbed up the ladder before swinging the hammer on a stake, causing the wall to fall into the water and revealing a Waddle Dee.
"Poyo!" Kirby waved Chiaki over.
"Oh!" Chiaki teleported over to Kirby and freed the Waddle Dee. "There you go, little guy." She said before teleporting the Waddle Dee back to town as they hopped back into the water.
"Hmm? Oh, you two look pretty friendly!" Elfilin said to some Scarfies. "You two wouldn't happen to know where we can find the other Waddle Dees, would ya?"
"ELFILIN, NO!" Chiaki yelled, quickly teleporting between them as chaos magic conjured up in the palms of her hands and proceeded to unleash dark lasers into the Scarfies, eradicating them on the spot.
"Aww, I kinda wanted to see him learn the hard way… party pooper!" Marx mumbled while Bandana Dee breathed a sigh of relief.
"Yeesh, what's your deal? They seemed perfectly harmless!"
"Poyo poyo!" Kirby informed him.
"They're demons? …But they look so cuddly."
"Trust me, they are the definition of "looks can be deceiving"." Chiaki said. …Wait a second, did I actually save this potentially evil little guy from those things? Then again, not even I would want to sic Scarfies on my worst enemy…
"Uh-huh… ooookay." Elfilin shrugged, while Pyro took one look at a sand sculpture and used the flamethrower to airblast the sand away, revealing a Waddle Dee underneath the sand sculpture.
"Mmmph mmph!" Pyro waved to the Waddle Dee as Chiaki teleported the sand covered Waddle Dee away, then they went into the next area where they would start swimming while also avoiding whirlpools.
"Geez, whirlpools?! You gotta be kidding me!" Ryuji exclaimed.
"We'll fish you out!" Penny said happily as they swam around, while also taking care of some Glunks while Chiaki dunked a Scarfy into a whirlpool. Elfilin looked up on a cliff and flew up to see a stake.
"Hey Kirby! There's a thing over here that you can hammer!" He called out and then noticed a Scarfy approaching him. "Oh! Hey! I don't care what everyone says about you, but you're a cutie!" Elfilin smiled. "They say you're dangerous, but I'd say otherwi-"
The Scarfy immediately transformed into its true self.
"-AIYEEEEEEEEEE!" Elfilin shrieked as Chiaki teleported to his location while Kirby came in and flattened the Scarfy with his hammer to kill it. Elfilin immediately hugged Chiaki, stuffing his head between her breasts.
"Shhh, it's okay… they won't hurt you. I'll make sure of it." She said gently, rubbing his back.
"Well, look at the bright side! At least he learned!" Marx said, which caused Bandana Dee to smack him upside the head. "Ooof! What?" He asked as Kirby hammered the stake to open up a secret passage, where Pyro, Makoto and Ryuji swam on in.
"Is he okay?" Penny asked.
"Just shaken…" Chiaki said gently, continuing to rub his back as BB-8 climbed up and patted him on the back as well.
"Thanks… hoo… definitely needed that." Elfilin said, hugging Chiaki in gratitude as she simply patted him on the head, then they all dove into the water where they met up with the trio with a Waddle Dee accompanying them.
"We got another one!" Makoto smiled as Chiaki smiled and teleported the Waddle Dee away, then they all swam through the current.
"Warning! I'm picking up on a lot of Gnawcodiles in this area!" SAPR warned.
"...Gnawcodiles? That's what they're called here?" Chiaki asked.
"Apparently so!" Ryuji said as one Gnawcodile ambushed them and snapped down on Makoto… or would have if Makoto hadn't pushed back his jaws with her arms and legs.
"DON'T! EVEN! THINK! ABOUT IT!" She yelled, punching the Gnawcodile in the jaw enough times for it to relent and swim away in terror. "Yeah, you better swim away!"
"...Goodness! Are we sure she's not part of the Beast Pack?" Marx asked.
"I wouldn't be surprised!" Ryuji said as they swam ahead, taking care of a Glunk while avoiding the whirlpools as they swam to the beach, while Bandana Dee threw a spear directly into a Scarfy's face to kill it.
Once they went into the next area while also avoiding a Needlous, Chiaki spotted a Blipper flopping about as she gently put it back into the water, then Kirby spotted a ring and sucked it up, only to become Ring Mouth Kirby.
"Aw-yaw!" Kirby attempted to "Poyo".
"...Goodness, how are you gonna attack with that?" Chiaki asked in amusement as Kirby decided to use a Windblast attack, which was enough to blow Marx away.
"Waaaaaaaah!"
"Ooooh, that'll do!" Chiaki grinned, giggling at Marx being blown away as he returned sopping wet.
"Not funny…" Marx mumbled.
"You're right, it's hilarious." Chiaki snickered while Penny looked at Kirby's Ring Mouth and looked at the sign of the building.
"Hey Kirby, think you could stand right between this gap?" Penny asked as Kirby waddled over and did so, where Penny scanned the wording.
"Hotel… okay, good to know!" Penny smiled, which caused the sign to light up and the roof opened up and spat out a Waddle Dee.
"This is a hotel? I guess part of the world got flooded." Chiaki guessed, teleporting the Waddle Dee away as they walked to the right, while Pyro happily jumped into the water and Pyrosharked his way around, electrocuting anything with the Neon Annihilator.
"She's having way too much fun…" Ryuji said.
"Yup." Chiaki giggled while Kirby airblasted a Scarfy and some Waifs as they went around the corner as Kirby blew into a windmill to cause part of the ground to raise up from the water, then they went over a log that used to have a Gnawcodile underneath until Pyro evaporated it.
Kirby then blew away some boxes which caused some of them to crush a Scarfy, then Kirby waddled over to another windmill, which caused a boat to rise up from the water. "Aw-yaw!" Kirby hopped onto the water and sailed across the water where Bandana Dee jumped in and threw spears at any enemy in the way.
Everyone else simply went into the water and tried to swim after Kirby as he airblasted his way into a rock wall and shattered it, using more wind to sail over some Gnawcodiles before they reached a small island that held a Waddle Dee, plus some watermelon that Kirby attempted to eat but bounced off.
"Aw-yaw…" Kirby pouted as the Atlas sisters picked up the watermelon as they went back and freed up the Waddle Dees right as Pyro destroyed the last coconut, which caused another Waddle Dee to land near the group.
Kirby immediately spat out the ring and ate up the watermelon as did the rest of the group. "How the eff is this watermelon so fresh?" Ryuji asked.
"Got me." Makoto responded as they hopped on the Warp Star and took off while Chiaki, Kirby, BB-8 and Elfilin hopped on another Warp Star and flew off, and then found two rifs opening up where they split up.
End BGM
BGM: Beginner Treasures (Kirby and the Forgotten Land)
Hammer Treasure - Hammer Road! Hit the Stakes - Kirby, BB-8
Kirby and BB-8 hopped out of the portal as they saw the stake up ahead. "Poyo!" Kirby said as BB-8 brought out his own hammer and booped as they went ahead as Kirby hammered the first stake as they then went up the steps while avoiding some Awoofies, then BB-8 hammered the next stake as they turned around and kept going, the two of them smacking around some Bronto Burts as Kirby hammered the stake that four Bronto Burts were guarding.
Once more platforms lowered, they hopped over while BB-8 batted a Fowley into some other Fowlies, causing them all to explode at once as they went ahead and jumped over a Gordo bar while BB-8 flattened a Fowley as they hit the stake and kept going, weaving around the Rabiroos and hitting another stake, where some platforms lowered as the Awoofies charged at them, but they avoided them and hit the last stake guarded by Rabiroos, where the last platform containing the Rare Stone appeared as they grabbed a hold of it.
"Poyo!" Kirby smiled.
Normal Treasure - Sweet Success! Invincible Rampage - Chiaki, Elfilin
"Meep…" Elfilin whimpered. "Th-that's a lot…!" He said as they were staring at the army of Scarfies in front of them.
"Hmm…" Chiaki scanned the area. "Two switches on the corners, two switches on the far end… okay, got it." She clapped her hands and created four clones of herself as they all flew over to the switches, where an Invincibility Candy appeared in front of them.
Chiaki, along with her clones, smirked as they snapped their fingers as translucent boxes in the shape of Gamecubes and Xbox Series X's trapped all the Scarfies and then they exploded. "Whoa!" Elfilin exclaimed as the clones disappeared, then Chiaki walked over and opened up a dimensional pocket and stored the Invincibility Candy for later.
"There we go! Nothing to worry about!" Chiaki smiled sweetly as Elfilin stared at her in awe.
"You're amazing!" He said as he flew right alongside her as Chiaki then snapped her fingers to teleport several Buffahorns to Waddle Dee Town, then they both collected the Rare Treasure.
A rift opened up as Chiaki and Elfilin jumped inside of it.
Sword Treasure: Slash and Slice! Sword Trial
Chiaki and Elfilin found themselves in an arena where the former spotted a sword essence. "Oh, I get it…" She went into her screens and summoned the Buster Sword, where several Blade Knights dropped down.
"You got this!" Elfilin flew overhead to avoid being cut as Chiaki lunged ahead and slashed through the Blade Knights with ease. She turned to see some Bronto Burts charging at her as she immediately Cross Slashed them to destroy them.
More Blade Knights showed up as Chiaki got in a stance, charging up her Limit as the Blade Knights attacked her, but she jumped back and countered with a few Blade Beams before slashing through another Blade Knight.
Two Buffahorns appeared and charged at Chiaki, but she simply teleported them to Waddle Dee Town for Gundham to take care of, then Chiaki summoned a materia and put it in her Buster Sword as she swiftly used Thundaga to take care of the Bronto Burts.
A Wild Edge appeared in front of her. "Bring it." Chiaki said as she lunged ahead, the two of them clashing with their blades until Chiaki parried him and attacked, but Wild Edge put out his shield. Chiaki smirked, teleporting behind the Wild Edge and slashed him to stun him, then she got in a stance and felt her Limit at full power.
"Here goes!" She said as she lunged ahead and unleashed Omnislash, destroying the Wild Edge with ease.
"Whoa!" Elfilin exclaimed as a Rare Stone appeared before her as she took it. "That was incredible!"
Chiaki smiled with a faint blush. "Ah, it was nothing." She said, twirling the Buster Sword and placed on her back before she dismissed it, then the rift opened up as they jumped inside.
End BGM
BGM: Abandoned Beach
The duo landed on a platform, where another rift opened up as Kirby and BB-8 hopped out near them, and then another Warp Star came crashing down near them.
World 2-2: Concrete Isles - Reimu, Adaleine & Ribbon, Francisca, JINXY, Akira
"Wow! This place looks gorgeous!" Francisca said.
"Agreed." Adaleine said as they all dove into the water where they swam past some Squishies as Ribbon spotted a seagull.
"Oh! Hello!" Ribbon waved as the seagull turned around and flew off. "Aww…" She pouted as they climbed up where they would see a Balloon-Meister throwing bombs at them.
"Hmm, what do you think? Have your Gundham friend tame this thing?" Reimu asked.
"Worth a shot." Chiaki said and teleported him away.
"He'll be happy for sure." Nyx snickered as they swam across and climbed up, finding a star fragment as Akira put it away and then hopped on a moving platform and snagged another star fragment right before a Bomber fell over. Kirby sucked it up and became Crash kirby right as they were ambushed by some Scarfy.
Kirby got in a stance, charging up Crash. "POOOOOYOOOOOOOOOOOO!" He cried, unleashing Crash as Xena and Chiaki put up barriers to protect them all as the Scarfies had evaporated.
"Geez! Talk about overkill!" Elfilin said as Kirby nonchalantly picked up another star fragment as they hopped on a moving platform and grabbed another fragment and then after Chiaki teleported away another Balloon-Meister and Akira shot away at some Glunks, they grabbed the last Star Fragment, where a crane activated and lifted up a platform with a treasure chest in it.
Akira dove in and opened it up, revealing a Waddle Dee. "Hey, little guy." He said as Chiaki teleported him away as they swam around where some Blippers swam with them until they got to an island that featured some Digguhs where Kirby sucked one up, where a Drill appeared on his head.
"A Drill?!" Chiaki exclaimed in surprise as Kirby dug underneath the earth, taking out the other Digguh and came out with a gachapon. "Ooooh, so it's probably like Animal where it's situational… okay, that's pretty cool."
"Wait, hang on, I gotta paint this!" Adaleine said as she swiftly painted Drill Kirby. "Aw, it's adorable!" She giggled and put her canvas away where Kirby opened up the gachapon where the prize was a Capture Waddle Dee statue.
"Poyo…?" Kirby wondered before putting it away as they went back into the water, then went on another small island where Kirby drilled his way through, spitting out Star Coins behind him as he popped up from the other side.
"He's having a grand ol' time." Iris smiled.
"Yup." Jade nodded as they dove back in, where Ribbon waved to another seagull but it flew off.
"Aw come on…" Ribbon pouted as they climbed out of the water and found another star fragment, this time the fragment being red as Kirby drilled his way around, spitting out other star fragments while avoiding massive cannonballs from a Gigatzo… until Xena telekinetically pushed it into the water.
"I was thinking about doing that myself." Chiaki admitted with a giggle as Kirby spotted a scissor lift and sucked it up, which in turn caused him to go into Scissor-Lift Mouth. "Pffffft! Awesome!" Chiaki laughed as Kirby moved side to side contently, and then saw a Scarfy floating around… so Kirby moved over and then shot up, knocking the Scarfy to the ground in a daze where Akira shot him up to kill it.
"Good riddance." He said as Kirby spat out the scissor lift and dug into a hole, finding the last star fragment as another crane lifted up a platform with another treasure chest, where Francisca went over and freed up the Waddle Dee inside of it where Chiaki teleported him to safety, and then Ribbon found another seagull, but it also flew off.
"Aww… they don't like me…" Ribbon pouted.
"Wait, look!" Adaleine pointed as the three seagulls came by, carrying a Waddle Dee toward them.
"...They have the strength to hold a Waddle Dee?" Chiaki raised an eyebrow.
"Don't they have webbed feet? I could be wrong…" Reimu said as Chiaki teleported the Waddle Dee back to Waddle Dee Town as the seagulls flew off, and then they noticed a faraway island as they swam over to the island.
Once there, they found two Waddle Dees chilling with an Awoofy underneath the shade, where Chiaki was about to teleport them away. "Hold it!" Adaleine requested.
"Hmm?" Chiaki looked at her curiously as Adaleine proceeded to paint a picture.
"There we go. Just felt like making a portrait of them." She smiled as Chiaki smiled and teleported the three away.
"You sure like painting everything at the first opportunity, don't ya?" Francisca chuckled.
"Well… when the opportunity strikes, yeah." Adaleine nodded. "Between this and illustrating a book, I'm pretty busy."
"Huh? You're illustrating a book?" Chiaki asked.
"Yeah! I'm helping out Ibuki who says she's making a book for a dear friend of hers. She asked me to help make the artwork."
"...Ibuki's taking up book making?" Xena asked.
"That's… interesting…" Yagami said.
"Good to know…" Chiaki mused as they hopped on a warp star and flew off to the next area, which was flooded with Gigatzos.
"You think this is a bit overkill!" Francisca said in dismay as Kirby drilled about, making a circle underneath a Digguh which caused the ground to explode inside the circle and knocked the Digguh into the water.
"That can happen? …Cool!" Chiaki said as they dodged the Gigatzo shots while Kirby dug up star fragments, quickly making their way over some moving platforms that moved into a wall, and then Kirby spotted a star shaped dig spot that he drilled into, where an orange Warp Star popped out as Kirby hopped on and flew up toward the upper wall.
Chiaki and Elfilin flew after him out of curiosity as Kirby sucked up a pipe to become Pipe Mouth Kirby and started rolling. "...Oh, that looks like fun!" Chiaki said as Kirby picked up the fourth star fragment while rolling over some Glunks as Kirby jumped and smashed through a wall before slamming into the other end of the pillar, flattening himself in seconds.
"Ooooh!" Chiaki winced.
"Aaaand painful." Elfilin added while wincing as Kirby fell flatly on the last star piece, opening up a cage as BB-8 rolled in and freed up a Waddle Dee, happily beeping as Xena teleported the Waddle Dee away while Kirby spat out the pipe and rubbed his head.
"Poyo…" Kirby groaned as Chiaki was right by his side and used a healing spell to heal him up just in case. "Poyo!" Kirby hugged her in gratitude as they hopped down.
"He okay?" Akira asked.
"Yeah, he's fine." Chiaki nodded as they spotted a long line of Gigatzos firing all at once, until Yagami got out of Xena as the twins proceeded to block the fiery cannonballs while Kirby dug up a drill spot, where he came out with a Maxim Tomato and a Waddle Dee trapped inside.
"Poyo!" Kirby smiled as Chiaki teleported the dazed Waddle Dee away as she opened up a dimensional pocket and put the Maxim Tomato inside for storage, then she sealed it up.
"Save that for later." She said as they walked away and landed on the platform, snagging the last remaining Waddle Dees in the golden cage.
"I think that wraps up this place." Iris said.
"Yeah." Jade nodded as they all hopped on a Warp Star and flew off, but the Ayami twins stayed behind.
End BGM
"Hmm? You two feeling okay?" Chiaki asked.
"Yeah… we're just… worried. We still haven't found Umber and… the more you guys explore and not teleport Umber away… the more worried we get."
Chiaki frowned. "Yeah, that would put a damper on things." She said before smiling. "But don't worry! We'll find him before we know it!"
"Yeah! I'm not sure who this Umber guy is, but we'll find him for sure!" Elfilin said.
Yagami smiled. "Thanks… I think we needed that." She said as Chiaki and Kirby roped them into a hug before the psychic twins teleported away.
BB-8 let out some curious boops.
"Who knows… but I hope we find Umber. For their sake." Chiaki said before pulling out her phone and started to text Ibuki.
"Hey, what kind of book are you making?"
"Corrupted Interdimensional Error: Failed to send to recipient due to unknown recipient."
"Aw come on, here too?" Chiaki groaned. "Unknown recipient, my foot. Ibuki likes to make herself known all the time!" She said in dismay, putting her phone away as they hopped into a Warp Star and flew off.
Back at Waddle Dee Town…
"Goodness, Chiaki sent me some bomb throwing seals?" Gundham wondered before chuckling. "Yes, they're perfect!" He said while nearby, Sonia walked around with a hum.
"Miss Sonia!"
Sonia turned her head, seeing LAFF and Logue approaching her. "Oh, hello! What can I do for you?"
"We were just talking and we remembered you saying something about you having militaristic experience." Laura said.
"That's true, I do have militaristic experience. Why do you ask?"
"Well uh… we were hoping you could… show us a thing or two about combat. Show us the ropes and all."
Sonia gasped, her eyes sparkling. "Oh, I would love to teach you all about combat! First, we gotta figure out weapons suits you the best! …Although, we would have to do wooden weapons just so you don't get yourselves hurt."
Laura smiled. "Yeah, that's understandable. We're ready to learn!"
Sonia smiled. "Awesome!" She grinned, while JINXY and the others returned as Jade spotted Futaba walking into the Weapons shop.
"Hmm?" Jade wondered as she approached the shop.
"Upgrades, huh… interesting…" Futaba rubbed her chin. "I wonder if it's possible to…"
"Possible to what?"
"Ack!" Futaba yelped as she turned around to see Jade.
"Oh! Sorry babe, I didn't mean to startle you."
"No no, it's okay." Futaba chuckled. "I was just thinking aloud since Kirby had a few of his copy abilities upgraded, it just got me thinking."
"For what, exactly?"
"Well… I was thinking if it was possible to upgrade… well… myself."
Jade looked at her in surprise. "Upgrade you?"
"Yeah, like… I wonder what it'd be like if I were to be like Sombra…"
"Not sure who Sombra is, but… what exactly are you thinking?"
Futaba smiled. "Truth be told… I wanna be a Technomage."
Sooooo, what kind of book are you making, exactly?
Ibuki: It's a secret to everyone~!
Ah, figures. Anywho, what are your guys' thoughts on Drill as a whole? Personally, I found myself not liking it at all until I had it upgraded to Twin Drill...